Economic Approaches Towards Inequality and Distribution

Course leader

Sofie R. Waltl

Target group

Graduate

Course aim

The course provides a broad overview of different aspects to measure and assess inequality. Topics covered include gender inequalities, intergenerational mobility, distributional national accounts, wage inequality and perceived fairness, and poverty. Students will acquire skills to read and understand research articles, critically assess employed methods, formulate research questions and develop a research design.